LinkPatrol

WordPress SEO plugin is now augmented with Linkdex‘s page optimization technology. Yes! As of May 9, 2011, you can have seamless “SEO power” and insights at your fingertips when publishing from within WordPress.

Let’s define the power behind this integration:

WordPress is the leading content management system (CMS) and blog software that’s free. Many search marketers and publishers use it an love it – enough said.

WordPress SEO is a free plugin (with paid add-on modules) developed by Yoast. WordPress SEO has been recognized by many blogs, including Mashable, as the best plugin to optimize WordPress sites for SEO. (Joost de Valk is the mastermind behind it all, and many more of us love the plugin and Joost!)

Linkdex is a set of paid SEO tools launched in early 2011 that serves as a task manager, step-by-step SEO assistant, a platform for in-depth competitive analysis, and a conduit to Majestic SEO’s backlink data.

The WordPress SEO and Linkdex partnership offers plugin users free use of the Linkdex page optimization toolset. This aspect of Linkdex enables you to see an overview of your keywords and associated page optimization. Publishers can now take control of SEO within WordPress thanks to the collaboration between Yoast and Linkdex.

“This partnership helps us achieve our long-term goals of repositioning SEO as a key business process for anyone with a website. Anyone who can use WordPress can use Linkdex.”

Are you salivating yet? You should be. Here’s why:

Focus Keyword

The following screenshot of WordPress SEO with Linkdex integration shows a “snippet preview” – how your title, meta description and page information may show in the search engine results (SERPs) based off various focus keyword options.

The focus keyword feature provides a suggest box to help you evaluate keyword modifiers and variations.

Page Analysis

Linkdex shows you what you can do to improve a page’s chance at ranking higher from within the WordPress SEO plugin. The screens below shows optimization tips and scoring which provides signals that indicate warning, caution, and go!

The optimization score for this example shows this page needs work on the meta description, headings, and image alt attributes.

The integration enables you to evaluate each page’s score based on keywords targeted. You can fine-tune your page and optimize it for your chosen keyword phrase from within Yoast’s plugin.

Joost de Valk said:

“I’ve always believed that a large part of SEO should not be the job of an SEO manager or a technical team, but of the people writing a site’s content. With the new Linkdex page analysis integration, we’ve taken direct SEO feedback on your copy to a whole new level: you can get a detailed analysis of your copy even before you publish it, and best of all, it’s completely free!”

Want to know more?

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Joost de Valk of Yoast and Matt Roberts, Co-Foudner of Linkdex, are conducting a webcast on Thursday, May 12 to share more about the WordPress SEO integration.

Dana Lookadoo

Dana Lookadoo is the founder of Yo! Yo! SEO, a boutique agency based around the concept of Word-of-Mouth SEO. Focus is on helping businesses optimize their online presence to fully engage with their audiences. Dana has been “working” the Internet since 1996 with a focus on SEO and training since 2003. Connect with Dana on Twitter and LinkedIn

17 thoughts on “WordPress SEO Plugin Integrates Linkdex”

What’s the catch??Seriously. Nothing in life is free (not even air – you buy it in Japan and China!!) and forgive me for being pessimistic…

Also, when we’re in the praising mode, I’d like to mention another wordpress plugin which I find very very nice – SEO Ultimate from SEO Design Solutions (nope, not affiliated – I just like their plugin…).

No catch! Joost provides a lot of value to the community by offering free functionality in his plugins. He does have paid add-ons for other functionality. He has been using Linkdex for some of his clients, and obviously they worked together to find a way to enhance the WordPress SEO plugin.

Linkdex is allowing WordPress publishers to utilize a portion of their services at no cost. If they want more Linkdex insights, the paid versions are available.

I haven’t used the SEO Ultimate plugin, but I do feel that SEO Design Solution is at the top of their game!

The fact that WordPress had already impressed a lot of bloggers and website creators worldwide, it still continues to entice its end users to fully stick with them as well as use their paid services, which are in fact totally affordable.

Agree about Joost putting out such great stuff! He does sooooooo much for the community!

Linkdex? I learned of them when they launched and looked at them briefly in January. The SEO page optimization piece they are offering as a value-add to the Yoast plugin is a small aspect of their total offering.

I just had a demo with Matt, one of the co-founders this morning. I’m extremely impressed with their offering, which integrates task management along with research and competitive analysis. I’ll have to write more after my 30-day trial.

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